Transcriber's notes: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed. New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain. [Illustration: COME TO BE MARRIED. Frontier.] ON THE FRONTIER, OR SCENES IN THE WEST. [BY] [Charles Henry Pearson] _Written for the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society,_ _and approved by the Committee of Publication._ BOSTON: MASSACHUSETTS SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETY DEPOSITORY, NO. 13 CORNHILL. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by the MASS. SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPE AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. — — — — — — PRINTED BY WRIGHT & POTTER. CONTENTS. ———— ADVENTURE ON A WESTERN STEAMER DEATH ON THE PRAIRIE GOING FOR LUMBER LIGHT FOR THE PRAIRIE A RIDE TO A WESTERN WEDDING THE LITTLE MOUND IN THE WEST A WALK WITH A STRANGER A FRONTIER TRAGEDY FRONTIER WOMEN THE MIDNIGHT CALL THE WORLD-WANDERER THE PASTOR'S DREAM A SMILE, A GLANCE, A HYMN A LOST OPPORTUNITY "NOT IN VAIN" THE PRAYING BANKRUPT "A SOFT ANSWER" THAT PROMISE AFTER MANY DAYS MY COUSIN INCIDENT IN A DEPOT MY STEP-MOTHER ON THE FRONTIER. [Illustration] ADVENTURE ON A WESTERN STEAMER. I HAD been for some years in poor health, and, at length, became almost prostrated in body and mind. Physicians advised a change of climate, recommending the Northwest as adapted to restore the tone of my physical system, and save my lungs from disease. Having never visited the region designated, I wrote a letter of inquiry to a friend who had just returned from that part of the country. Among other things, in reply, he said, "Should you go West, beware of the Mississippi River desperadoes. In taking a steamer, appropriate a state-room to yourself; do not, on any consideration, share one with a stranger. Let the money you take with you be in gold, and what you do not at once need secure about your person, thus." Then followed an ingenious method of secreting it. At the close of his communication, the caution concerning the money and the state-room was repeated.